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During a time when most college students are looking forward to another school years, the ones at the College of Staten Island were a bit alarmed. See, a few days ago, CSI sent a letter to students explaining that 41-year-old Annadale resident and former state trooper Thomas Austin would be studying with them. And that Austin was a Level 3 (the highest) sex offender. Welcome back to school.
Naturally, students and other faculty became very concerned. Austin was imprisoned after taking pornographic pictures of a 7-year-old in 1997 and then jailed again after trying to get a 14-year-old to take "lewd" pictures of herself over the Internet in 2004. Austin was paroled and had been living with his parents when he enrolled at CSI. CSI has a public school and day care center on campus, but officials decided that telling him he couldn't have contact with those students was enough.
Yesterday, CSI president Dr. Tomas Morales decided to ban Austin from campus. The school will refund Austin his tuition money, and the Staten Island Advance says CSI does not anticipate a lawsuit. Well, a lawsuit from Austin probably seems manageable relative to potential lawsuits from upset parents.
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Does this mean that all the other perverts at the College of Staten Island are leaving too?
i hate these pedo-perverts & i think they can never be "cured" of their sickness.
that being said, i hope he sues that school for as much $ as he can get.
They should have never accepted a student with his history. God forbid if they let him stay and he went on to commit a crime against another student or someone in the community. Major liability issue!
This sounds like a potential scene out of Little Children.
why exactly is this animal out of his cage?
Why do people say CSI stands for College of Stupid Idiots?
How dare they ban this poor soul from having a proper education. If the students and their kids are concerned, they should go to another school.
And besides he doesnt like 18 to 21 year old college students. He likes em much younger than that.
He should sue.
This is truly a violation of this man's constitituional rights. He has served his time and paid his debt to society. It is wrong to place these restrictions on him. The real problem is that he is not still in jail.
While the CSI effort is well intentioned, it's really just a band-aid on a larger problem - the fact that the sentencing and parole guidelines for pedophiles are too lenient. Sexual crimes against children are some of the most abhorrent anti-social acts and offenders have an extremely high degree of recidivism.
Pedophiles should never be set free.